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March 31, 2005
Terri Dies
I’m sure you know by now that Terri Schiavo died this morning after being starved for fourteen days.
Michael Schiavo’s attorney was quoted as saying, “Terri Schiavo died a calm, peaceful, and gentle death.”
I find it very odd that he would say such a thing when I watched Father Frank Pavano, the family’s priest, on Fox News this morning saying that you could tell Terri’s final minutes were a huge struggle. Her skin was full of red splotches and her breathing much labored. How could anyone that has been starved both of food and water for fourteen days have a “calm, peaceful, and gentle” death? There’s no way they could. Terri was clearly murdered while the world watched.
What makes it even harder is at the same time Terri was dying, the Pope was getting a nasal feeding tube. This man is 84 years old, has Parkinson’s disease, hip and knee problems, and a neurological problem, which can make breathing difficult and the Vatican basically said, ‘We’re not giving up! We love this man and we don’t want him to die. We’re willing to do whatever we need to do to keep him alive!’ You would think that here in the United States people would feel this way also. I thought our people cared, but now I see that Rome has more compassionate justice where human life is concerned.
The following statement was on the FOXNews website. It was given by Cardinal Renato Martino, a top Vatican official in regards to Terri’s death:
“Schiavo's death was a "human tragedy, but also an ethical, juridical and cultural tragedy." He told reporters her loss of life in a hospice in Florida to a "death sentence executed through a cruel method."
"We are against the death penalty, and that was practically a death penalty that was inflicted on her," Martino said. "That was not a natural death. It was an imposed death."
"When you deprive somebody of food and water, what else is it? Nothing else but murder," Martino said, adding that he was speaking on the case "according to the teaching of the pope." The pontiff has spoken on behalf of providing food and water, even through artificial means, to patients like Schiavo.”
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: where are the boundaries? When do we stop and THINK?
Posted by tami at March 31, 2005 10:33 PM